What's the difference between incubus and succubus?

Incubus


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.
  • (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare.
  • (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It contains chapters on modern syndromes, eg, headache, paralysis, epilepsy, and vertigo, as well as disorders of the time, eg, incubus and phrenitide.
  • (2) A private incubus squatting on an anaesthetised public space.
  • (3) Aside from the punk icon, the cast also includes *NSYNC's JC Chasez as Pontius Pilate, Destiny Child 's Michelle Williams as Mary Magdalene and Incubus frontman and long time fan, Brandon Boyd, who has been cast as Judas Iscariot.
  • (4) It was to star Lydon as King Herod, Williams as Mary Magdalene, Brandon Boyd of Incubus as Judas and JC Chasez of 'N Sync as Pontius Pilate.
  • (5) Santa, hard at work in his orbiting space castle (don't ask) is powerless to help as the campy incubus schemes to corrupt virtuous little boys and girls.
  • (6) The term "incubus syndrome" is proposed to describe patients suffering from the delusion that they have been sexually approached at night by an unseen lover.

Succubus


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
  • (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her.
  • (2) Scarlett Johansson plays the succubus who comes to question the need for all this man-eating.
  • (3) Yet despite being a malevolent ink-and-paper succubus that will devour your firstborn – seriously, chuck a baby at a copy of the Mail, and watch as the paper roll its eyes back and swallows it whole – the Mail deserves its voice.
  • (4) Mrs Robinson would be happy to destroy Benjamin, and soon becomes a vengeful maternal succubus, the cold, strict prohibitive mother who punishes for no reason apart from her own pleasure.

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